Quotes by Kathryn Minshew - Page 2

Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.
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Jobs
Backgrounds
Candidates
Determine
Friendly
Fun
Passion
Prove
Chat
Interview
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Having a co-founder is incredible, but it has to be the right person: someone who shares your values and ethics, absolutely, but also someone who has a similar vision for the future in terms of their appetite for risk, for low salaries, for hard work.
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Appetite
Ethics
Hard Work
Right Person
Future Work Hard Work
Work Future Hard Work
Salaries
Shares
Similar
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As a cohort, millennials are unique in their social consciousness, and they make decisions based on that awareness. Keep them engaged at work by showcasing a culture of paying it forward and tying the day-to-day into the larger purpose of the organization.
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Consciousness
Day To Day
Engaged
Millennials
Paying
Tying
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Every generation brings something new to the workplace, and millennials are no exception. As a group, they tend to be highly educated, love to learn, and grew up with the Internet and digital tools in a way that can be highly useful when leveraged properly.
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Digital
Educated
Exception
Millennials
Something New
Tools
Workplace
Useful
Brings
Highly
No Exception
Properly
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It's all too easy to forget that cultural fit is a two-way street. Yes, the candidate needs to gel well with your company's vibe and mission. But, you also need to fit in with her desires, goals, and long-term career vision. It's not a one-sided relationship.
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Long Term
One Sided
Two Way Street
Candidate
Cultural
Desires
Gel
Mission
Two-Way
Vibe
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I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something... to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you're thinking about, what you want, and what you're afraid of can often help them give guidance.
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Controversial
Guidance
Fairly
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As you move through the application process, keep refining the way you present yourself. Like any skill, you'll only get better with practice, and you'll only hurt yourself if you get discouraged too early. This is one race that's definitely a marathon, not a sprint.
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Application
Discouraged
Marathon
Refining
Sprint
Skill
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I probably have a small number of people that are consistently advisors and mentors, but I'm much more likely to have a broader array of... almost like an unofficial board of advisors, where I know that certain people are going to be good for certain types of topics.
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Consistently
Topics
Good Where People
Good People Know
Advisor
Array
Board
Broader
Mentors
Types
Unofficial
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For me, I spent months on job boards in 2010 and was frustrated by the experience. It's antiquated and clunky, and there was nothing about a particular job posting that helped me favor one company over another. You literally get a list of 5,000 jobs that look the same.
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Boards
Frustrated
Antiquated
Favor
Experience Look Me
List
Posting
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I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.
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Acceptable
Culture
Discussion
Focus
Muse
Team
Advocate
Norms
Preferences
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When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.
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Book
Felt
Helping
Hitting
Next
Remarkable
Women Me Remember
Career
Consultant
Read
Figure
Lead
Gave
Guide
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Recruiters sometimes have their wires crossed when it comes to what Millennials really want at work. While fancy perks are great, many Millennials are more excited about growing and thriving at a company that appreciates their talent and will help them continue to learn.
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Fancy
Millennials
Perks
Appreciates
Work Great Talent
Crossed
Thriving
Wires
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For many people, the hardest thing about job-seeking is figuring out where to start. All through college, I heard my friends asking themselves, 'What do I want to do with my life?' And guess what? After college, and after that first job, people still ask the same question.
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Hardest Thing
Heard
Figuring
Life My Life Start
The Hardest Thing
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Millennials tend to appreciate regular feedback because they want to feel that their work matters and that they are making a difference in the workplace. As the youngest generation at most organizations, they also tend to be hungry for growth and development opportunities.
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Feedback
Hungry
Making A Difference
Millennials
Workplace
Youngest
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You don't hire for mediocrity. Instead, you bring people onto your team because you know that they'll make a valuable contribution and turn in amazing work. But, in order to have that expectation, you need to make sure you're fostering an environment that allows them to do so.
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Contribution
Fostering
Mediocrity
Valuable
Work Amazing People
Work Amazing Your
Expectation
Hire
Onto
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The most important thing in startups is getting a product to market, as imperfect as it may be, and then iterating on it and continually making it better. A first rev of a site that has a few typos may not be perfect, but it was the start of something that I deeply believed in.
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Imperfect
Site
Believed
Continually
Deeply
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Startups
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Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read GQ, enjoy Fight Club, and subscribe to Thrillist, while the idea of a guy doing the same with Glamour, 27 Dresses and Daily Candy is nearly unheard of?
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Fighting
Guy
Ideas
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You won't be exiled to permanent unemployment just because there's a picture somewhere of you holding a red Solo cup and looking underage. But, your Google results tell a story: Have you been in the news? Authored articles or blog posts? What types of topics do you frequently tweet about?
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Articles
Permanent
Posts
Solo
Topics
Unemployment
Blog
Cup
Frequently
Holding
Types
Underage
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Previous experience, key skills, and education. They're undoubtedly all important things you consider when filtering through applicants in order to make a new hire. But, what's another major determining factor of whether or not that hopeful interviewee deserves an offer letter? Cultural fit.
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Hopeful
Important Things
Cultural
Determining
Factor
Filtering
Hire
Letter
Previous
Undoubtedly
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The best cover letters I've read are from people who have a passion for my company, and can make that passion come to life on a page. The letters that make me say, 'Yes! This person really gets it.' Because, at the end of the day, I want to hire people who already get it. Most hiring managers do.
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Passion
People
The End Of The Day
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Job seekers light up when they find The Muse - we're a breath of fresh air in a stale, musty world. Our user experience focuses first and foremost on the individual, on providing them information - from content to company profiles - to make the most pressing professional decisions in their lives.
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Air
Company
Fresh Air
Individual
Information
Light
Muse
Providing
Seekers
Stale
Decisions
Content
Breath
Foremost
Fresh
Pressing
Professional
User
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As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our partners to connect with - and makes us look buttoned up, too. SEO firm? Talk to our COO. An editor from the 'Huffington Post?' Meet our Editor-in-Chief.
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Doe
Editors
Firm
Knowing
Muse
Partners
Connect
Contacts
Daily
Editor
Grown
Post
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Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?
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Ambitious
Candy
Dresses
Glamour
Lit
Magazines
Unheard
Bind
Nearly
Chick
Daily
Fight Club
Gq
Subscribe
Young Woman
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Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster.
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Decision
Different
Disaster
Flexibility
Founding
Inefficiency
Launching
Making Decisions
Team
Decisions
Pitches
Quickly
Spell
Start-Up
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Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line.
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Disservice
Employee
Thinking
Two
Years
Talented
Review
Sum
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My first company failed completely. And it failed at about ten months old. I had about 12 months of savings, so when it failed I was thinking: 'Do I go back to work?' And at that point I believed so deeply in what I was doing that I couldn't imagine anything else other than trying to make this business work.
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Imagine
Months
Saving
Savings
Ten
Thinking
Trying
Anything Else
Believed
Deeply
Failed
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For almost the first year of The Muse's life, I would do 5 to 8 networking events a week. And I don't necessarily think that's the right path for everyone, but I realized that as an entrepreneur, one of my strengths was finding the right people who could help us. I didn't come into startups with any network.
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Entrepreneur
Muse
People
Right Path
Thinking
Years
Life Path People
Network
Startups
Strengths
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As a general rule, most recent university graduates know far more about U.S. economic history and 'The Lord of the Flies' than about how the modern workplace functions and how to succeed in it. Yet come senior year of college, it couldn't be more important or more timely to learn the basics of getting a job.
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Basics
Graduates
Senior
Senior Year
Timely
Workplace
Functions
General Rule
Recent
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There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn't know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn't find it. There was nothing.
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Colleagues
Consistently
Credit
Hard Way
Lessons
Missing
Facing
Raise
Resource
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When talking to first-time entrepreneurs, I often ask them: 'How do you know that people want your product or service?' As you can expect, the answer is often that they don't yet, but will know once they launch. And they're right. That's why it's critical to launch as quickly as possible so you can get that feedback.
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Critical
Do You Know
Feedback
Service People Will
Entrepreneurs
Launch
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We spend a lot of time on Skype and other video interviews, and it's funny how many people will prepare for a Skype interview by wearing a formal suit jacket with pajama pants on the bottom. Then suddenly, someone is at the door, and you have to get up, and you realize you're wearing reindeer boxers. Just put pants on.
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Bottom
Boxers
Formal
Pants
Skype
Funny Time People
How Many People
Interview
Jacket
Prepare
Suit
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I had been a veteran of pretty challenging job searches, so I knew firsthand how frustrating, confusing, and demoralizing the job search process can be. Even after you get a job, many people join companies and discover in the first couple weeks that they aren't a good match with the personality and values of the company.
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Jobs
Confusing
Couple
Demoralizing
Frustrating
People
Veteran
Challenging
Discover
Firsthand
Join
Match
Search
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Ultimately, I think it takes a certain grit and determination to constantly re-prove to people that you're just as dedicated, just as determined, and just as capable as the entrepreneurs around you who may better fit the physical pattern - but on the flipside, women who succeed often become razor sharp through the process.
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Capable
Dedicated
Determination
Grit
Entrepreneurs
Pattern
Razor
Sharp
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There's a dance happening on both sides of the table. Individuals are giving their personal and career values a lot more weight when it comes to finding a company that aligns with both. At the same time, companies are becoming a lot more transparent about their core values as an organization and the types of people they want to attract.
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Both Sides
Core Values
Sides
Transparent
Attract
Types
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When The Daily Muse initially wanted to launch a job board, our first ideas were insanely (and needlessly) complex. We wanted to integrate with social networks, gather rich personal data to build predictive algorithms, and put together numerous cool visualization tools before launching out to the world. We were just sure users would love it!
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Data
Muse
Tools
Users
Visualization
Board
Complex
Networks
Daily
Gather
Initially
Integrate
Launch
Numerous
Predictive
Social Networks
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Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.
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Disappointment
Long
Stress
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I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for a little while,' I am going to grab my laptop and just knock out a few more emails, or start sketching up some product ideas for TheMuse.com. So when I want time off, I schedule dinners out, movie outings, and on occasion a flight lesson from Groupon.
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Home
Ideas
Trying
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